When you boil it down, blogging is really just jazzed up procrastination, isn’t it?. Sure I’ve had things I wanted to say and when in Nepal I certainly went to great lengths and tested every ounce of patience to publish posts with very unreliable and painfully slow internet connections. But back home with speedy broadband wired up in my bedroom, its a fear of the to-do list that usually inspires me.
Starting today, my first week back at school, I’ll be blogging responses to two courses, Transient Spaces: Participatory Media and the Honours research project.
For the moment I’m enthusiastic, which is a good start.
For transient spaces I’ll be producing an online documentary which I think I will use to explore photo-narrative technique. That means giving out cameras to participants and recording the narratives explanations about their photos. I’ll do some google-ing over the next week to find out more about the technique, but I had been hoping to do a work shop with Indigenous students in Weipa for Croc fest before the funding got pulled and the festival cancelled, which was very disappointing for all involved.
I have ideas around researching production practices which include Indigenous content production for my research project, but thats still definately under construction at this stage.
For the moment I also have a blogging alter-ego at www.fostercarevictoria.wordpress.com where my collegues and I discuss current issues surrounding foster care which might be of interest. More about that another time maybe…
